joining us is d. lawrence, senior vice president of research for the national association of realtors. good to have you with us. >> good evening. lou: this market looks like it's really recovering. give us a sense, as best you can, how strong it is nationwide. >> well, the strength of the recovery is much stronger than many people anticipated, and we are basically seeing the husing start up roughly 25% from one year before, and i think that for 2013, it could be a bigger increa because we are encountering some housing shortage. home sales running roughly 10% higher from one year before, and the inventory level came down to a 13-year low level, and because of the low draw down in inventory, one is seeing a consistent price increases, and these price increases have added $1 trillion to household wealth who are homeowners. lou: well, adding a trillion dollars, we still got a ways to go in this market to get us back to, well, pre-2008 levels. the idea that this -- that we're seeing this resurgence though,